They said “why are you always on your phone?
It’s antisocial! We’ve become a nation
Of mindless zombies. Simple conversation
Was good enough for us! You youngsters moan:
“If you can’t get connected, you’re alone!
Are these devices causing isolation?All this screen time will end in devastation!
Go out! You do not need your wi-fi zones!”
(Online, we’ve built communities for years:
Reached out to friends across the world and now
Although we’re all sequestered, we can wether
This storm. We’ll try to calm each other’s fears
And when they cry “It’s all so dreadful! How
Will we get through this?” We will say “Together.”)
Tom Juniper Poetry 